Solutions to Community Alcohol Problems
A Roadmap for Environmental Prevention

A guide to action for people who want to build communities free from alcohol-related problems.

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The Anchorage Youth Development Coalition provides leadership and coordinates resources and efforts to ensure that all Anchorage youth thrive. AYDC works to increase protective factors and reduce substance abuse and other risk factors through the Developmental Assets Framework, and other research based prevention strategies.

Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education
The mission of the Council is to create change that improves the independence, productivity, and inclusion into the community for people with developmental disabilities and students in special education.

The website of the International Survivors Action Committee (ISAC), a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization.We believe every child deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.Our mission is to expose abuse, civil rights violations, and fraud perpetuated through privately-owned facilities for juveniles.

CAICA seeks to expose and rectify the abuse and distress of children placed in private residential facilities, behavior modification programs, boot camps, wilderness programs, and boarding schools. We believe that no child should be abducted, incarcerated, abused, neglected, or stripped of their basic human rights for the sake of profit.                     

FACING FOSTER CARE IN ALASKA Facing Foster Care in Alaska (FFCA) is a group of current foster youth and alumni that has formed to make improvements to the foster care system in Alaska.  Please contact shae@ayfn for any information.

NICHCY is an information and referal center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues Children and youth with disabilities (birth to age 22 )are our special focus.

2005 Census Data Regarding People With Disabilities - Information Bulletin #186 (12/06)

A web site to connect youth with adults who have interesting careers and want to answer your questions about what they do, how they prepared for such a career and how they dealt with their own disabilities.  Some of their disabilities are visible (like using a wheelchair) and some are not visible (like depression or a learning disability). On this site, you can read the information or post questions.   After a short training, you can e-mail or contact the mentor directly.

A web site that explains how to address barriers to employment if you are an Alaskan with a disability, where and how to get support and help to prepare to begin or return to work and the finances of working while still on public benefits (like Medicaid). Explanation of the "ticket to work" program, benefits calculator and planners, beginning your own business and understanding the various programs that apply to SSI or SSDI income, such as PASS (Plan to Achieve Self-Support), Self-Employment Subsidty, IRWE (Impairment Related Work Expenses).